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As a private forest landowner, you may start to think about timber-related Federal income taxes only after having a timber sale. However, each forest activity you conduct can have tax implications. Generally, all income received is taxable unless excluded by tax law, and nothing is deductible unless a provision allows it. Understanding the forest-related provisions and integrating tax planning into your forest management can help lower your tax. This publication is intended to be an informational and educational resource for you and your tax advisor, but is not intended as financial, tax,...

Wood and plants are made of fibers that contain, in addition to cellulose, lignin and hemicelluloses. Xylan and galactoglucomannan are the dominant secondary cell wall hemicelluloses. In modern times, fibers are important materials for the biorefinery industry and for developing biocomposites. For these and other applications, the structural analysis of fibers is important, and Raman spectroscopy is among the many analytical techniques used. However, given the structural similarity between hemicelluloses and cellulose, many of their Raman contributions overlap, and the extent to which the...

Noninvasive and nondestructive root phenotyping techniques under field conditions are needed to advance plant root science. Soil electrical parameters including capacitance and resistance hold potential to meet this need, although their specific ability to detect roots remains uncertain. In this study, we developed a two-phase root and soil permittivity model at high frequency enabling accurate and noninvasive prediction of root volume. The validation calculation showed that the two-phase model successfully predicts root volume with a minimal error of less than 1 % under the control...

Understanding and quantifying the resilience of forests to disturbances is increasingly important for forest management. Historical fire suppression, logging, and other land-uses have increased densities of shade tolerant trees and fuel buildup in the western United States, which has reduced the resilience of these forests to natural disturbances. One way to mitigate this problem is to use fuel treatments such as stand thinning and prescribed burning. In this study, we investigated changes in forest structure in the Lassen and Plumas National Forests of northern California following a...

Foresight is essential for long-term planning and forward-looking decision-making in forestry, where planning horizons often span many decades. But generating foresight is challenging due to the increasing pace and complexity of change and growing uncertainty about the future. Most change that could affect or even disrupt forestry in the future originates outside of the field, such as social, technological, economic, and environmental changes. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project (Forest Horizons) aims to generate foresight by identifying early signals of change from outside...

The 3-30-300 rule offers benchmarks for cities to promote equitable nature access. It dictates that individuals should see three trees from their dwelling, have 30 % tree canopy in their neighborhood, and live within 300 m of a high-quality green space. Implementing this demands thorough measurement, monitoring, and evaluation methods, yet little guidance is currently available to pursue these actions. To overcome this gap, we employed an expert-based consensus approach to review the available ways to measure 3-30-300 as well as each measure’s strengths and weaknesses. We described seven...

The City of Santa Fe is well known for arts, food, and architecture, but it also faces significant risk of wildfire. In 2020, the City of Santa Fe partnered with the Wildfire Research (WiRē) team with the goal of better understanding the needs of residents within the study area and their level of support for wildfire risk mitigation programs. The resulting project centers on two types of property-level data: rapid wildfire risk assessment data and household survey data. We followed the WiRē Rapid Wildfire Risk Assessment (WiRē RA) protocol, which measures parcel-level risk as the sum of a...

Rhode Island forests accounted for a total of 505.0 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 393.8 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in Rhode Island. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

South Dakota forests accounted for a total of 14,085 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 19,552 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in South Dakota. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

Vermont forests accounted for a total of 27,206 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 17,730 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in Vermont. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.